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Thursday, 23 March 2017

#WeStandTogether to defeat this evil no matter how long it takes

YESTERDAY was a dark
day for the capital with innocent lives taken and others changed in
ways we cannot comprehend.

Hopefully any broken
bodies will heal and in time some of the horrors witnessed yesterday
will be locked away deep in the recesses of the victim's minds.

The stories of the
victims from the brave PC Keith Palmer who ran towards danger rather
than away to the American man on a 'trip of a lifetime' to celebrate
his 25th wedding anniversay, are utterly tragic and
emotional.

My heart goes out to
their families and all those whose loved ones were caught up in this
murderous rampage.

And I sincerely hope PC
Palmer was welcomed to a higher plain with a pat on the back from his
fellow fallen bobbies for bringing the target down. It's
heartbreaking to think it cost him his life.

But already some on the
right are seeking to make political gain from this, including Ms
Hopkins and messers Farage and Nuttall, speaking from his home
in......where does he live again?

'Britons are scared'
'Muslims need to do more', etc etc. The same old claptrap trotted out
everytime something like this happens.

The problem is this
mantra is so deeply flawed that actually if we dared ever take their
views seriously we'd be playing straight into the so-called ISIS's
hands.

Firstly, we aren't
scared – look how quickly London has bounced back, nervous yes but
normality has ensued today. Remember Hitler tried to flatten London
and we simply drank tea and hit him with everything we had!

Secondly, terrorism is
not a new weapon exclusively available to the Islamic world, it's
been a cancer on all races, creeds and religions since the year dot.

When diplomacy and
democracy don't work – the tapped amongst us turn to bombs and
bullets.

Has it ever worked in
the modern world? No of course not!

Do you really think the
Muslim community across the UK is turning a blind eye to this
radicalisation of young men? Of course they aren't. But a number of
men and women are being sucked into a vicious vacuum where jihad is
there only way out.

I recoil when the
phrase Islamic Extremism is used – what happened yesterday and on
other occasions is simply terrorism, it didn't work for the IRA (We
never called that Catholic Extremism did we?) and it won't work now.

The terrorist failed in
his mission yesterday, as well as multiple deaths on Westminster
Bridge he wanted to take victims in the seat of our democracy and be
taken down as a martyr.

Instead, thanks to the
compassion and care of British people, the casualties were heavily
reduced, although one wishes the only death had been his.

Look beyond the
attacker's religion, give him no name other than 'the terrorist' and
stand together with your fellow man and woman of all races and
religions.

The threat we face
today is not from Islam, from immigrants to our country or from
people who look and sound different to us.

It's from people who
don't accept our way of life, our values, our tolerance and our
respect and have bastardized a peaceful religion to achieve their
wicked aims.

All of us, in London,
the UK and the rest of the world won't let them win.